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Comment Re: Confounding Factors in Play (Score 1) 65

Metastudies are useless for anything but providing a reason to perform another study.

Time and time again metastudies have come to faulty conclusions, because of variables simply not accounted for.

They're great for encouraging and pushing for funding to perform other specific detailed studies. But results from metastudies should not generally be used to influence outside of further scientific study.

And the media should never touch them.

Comment Re: PCI (was Re:easy solution) (Score 1) 134

Yep. There's ways to lessen some pci requirements, but hiding the facts isn't one of them.

Unable to run current up to date versions is also a fantastic way to get compromised.

If you get compromised and it's discovered that you falsified your PCI stays, well, you'll find you can't accept payments any more. Good luck with that. Your customers won't all switch to a second tier alternative.

Comment Clean room is a legal strategy, not a requirement (Score 1) 125

Clean room design is a legal strategy, but it is not a legal requirement. There are other methods that can be used for creating works not considered to being a derivative work.

Also a reminder, words used in law don't have the same meaning in language. The law usually narrows the meaning explicitly, or implicitly via case law.

GNU has used this to their advantage to clone most of the shell runtime utilities, so why shouldn't the same be used to replace GNU licensed code?

Comment Re: Not clean room (Score 1) 47

Plagiarism and copyright violation aren't the same thing, contrary to some people's opinion.

LLMs don't produce a literally work verbatim, they produce extracts verbatim. I have two ex-gf that can quote entire pages from books they've read. (dozens, to hundreds). (it helps to be on the spectrum).

But, the ability to do doesn't mean anything they produce is inherently a violation; it does increase the *risk*.

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